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- Boris Johnson tells UN that Cop26 must be ‘turning point for humanity’
- UK plan to end Troubles prosecutions ‘could breach international law’
- Is China stepping up its ambition to supplant US as top superpower?
- UK warns Hong Kong security law critics of extradition risk posed by China
- England’s Covid travel rules spark outrage around the world
- Macron yet to take call from Australia’s Scott Morrison over sub snub
- Genetics reveal how humans island-hopped to settle remote Pacific
- China growth forecast cut by ratings agency amid Evergrande uncertainty
- Biden administration to reopen migrant detention camp near Guantánamo Bay prison
- Myanmar junta abducting children of people targeted for arrest, says UN expert
- James Bond was ‘basically’ a rapist in early films, says No Time to Die director
- Covid live news: daily deaths in Russia at record-equalling high; Thailand considers quarantine cut for vaccinated tourists
- More than 100 countries face spending cuts as Covid worsens debt crisis, report warns
- Canadian police seek man who allegedly punched nurse for vaccinating his wife
- ‘Would you like Pfizer with that?’ New Zealanders could get Covid jab with fast-food fix
- The smart toilet era is here! Are you ready to share your analprint with big tech?
- A mudblood in Tehran: my childhood between Iran and England
- Release the rainbow! Why red, blue, yellow, pink and orange are the new black
- Lewes’ Kelly Lindsey: ‘In Afghanistan I had to build trust with the players’
- Betye Saar: the brilliant artist who reversed and radicalised racist stereotypes
- On thin ice: how The Alpinist captured the terrifying climbs of Marc-André Leclerc
- Sabina Nessa thought to have been killed on way to meet friend, say police
- ‘Donnez-moi un break’: Johnson deepens rift with France over defence deal
- Tunisia’s president to ignore parts of the constitution and rule by decree
- Forced from home: the humans and animals under threat – in pictures
- US public health workers leaving ‘in droves’ amid pandemic burnout
- The delay of New Zealand’s emissions reduction plan is embarrassing – we need action now | Adam Currie
- Arrest footage and teargas raise concerns about Victoria police’s use of force to quell protests
- Small farmers have the answer to feeding the world. Why isn’t the UN listening? | Elizabeth Mpofu and Henk Hobbelink
- UN food summit will be ‘elitist’ and ‘pro-corporate’, says special rapporteur
- Big pharma fuelling human rights crisis over Covid vaccine inequity – Amnesty
- ‘Pushing the nuclear envelope’: North Korea’s missile diplomacy
- Biden recognises there could have been 'more discussion' with France says Psaki – video
- Whitty and Van-Tam say it is ‘inevitable’ that unvaccinated children will get Covid – video
- 'Donnez-moi un break': Johnson says France needs to 'get a grip' over submarine deal – video
| Boris Johnson tells UN that Cop26 must be ‘turning point for humanity’ Posted: 22 Sep 2021 09:25 PM PDT UK PM says it is time for the world to 'grow up' and 'listen to scientists' in speech to general assembly Cop26 must be a "turning point for humanity" in just 40 days' time, Boris Johnson has urged in a call to arms to fellow global leaders ahead of the climate summit in Glasgow. Addressing the UN general assembly in New York on Wednesday evening, Johnson warned it was time for humanity to "grow up". Continue reading... |
| UK plan to end Troubles prosecutions ‘could breach international law’ Posted: 23 Sep 2021 01:00 AM PDT European human rights commissioner warns Northern Ireland secretary that amnesty is 'deeply problematic' Boris Johnson's plan to impose a statute of limitations to end all prosecutions related to the Troubles before 1998 could be in breach of international law, a European human rights commissioner has told the government. Dunja Mijatović of the Council of Europe has written to the secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Brandon Lewis, saying the UK's proposals appear indistinguishable from an unconditional amnesty for those not yet convicted. Continue reading... |
| Is China stepping up its ambition to supplant US as top superpower? Posted: 22 Sep 2021 02:00 PM PDT Analysis: Joe Biden has cleared the decks to focus on China. But how imminent is the danger? It may have been an inelegantly, even ineptly, executed pivot, gratuitously alienating key allies, but by leaving Afghanistan and forming the Australian, US and UK security pact in the Indo-Pacific, Joe Biden has at least cleared the decks to focus on his great foreign policy challenge – the systemic rivalry with China. Yet the concern now is how quickly this rivalry could escalate, especially in Taiwan. The linchpin of the US alliance system in south-east Asia, Taiwan is the biggest island in the "first island chain", the group of islands that keeps China blocked in. It is China's next target, and as the former British prime minister Theresa May pointed out, no one quite knows if the west is prepared to fight to save Taiwan or whether the new tripartite pact in some way places a new obligation on the UK to come to the country's defence. Continue reading... |
| UK warns Hong Kong security law critics of extradition risk posed by China Posted: 23 Sep 2021 02:03 AM PDT Activist Bill Browder warns of global reach of controversial law after being contacted by Foreign Office Britain has warned some Hong Kong critics in the UK about travelling abroad, according to high-profile human rights advocate Bill Browder, highlighting concerns about the cross-border reach of the Chinese region's national security law. Browder, a well-known lobbyist for the use of sanctions against foreign governments involved in human rights abuses, said he was contacted by the UK Foreign Office earlier this month after he was named in a Hong Kong court during a foreign collusion case. Continue reading... |
| England’s Covid travel rules spark outrage around the world Posted: 22 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT Refusal to recognise vaccines given across Latin America, Africa and south Asia has been denounced as 'discriminatory' England's new Covid travel rules and refusal to recognise vaccines administered across huge swaths of the world have sparked outrage and bewilderment across Latin America, Africa and south Asia, with critics denouncing what they called an illogical and discriminatory policy. The transport secretary, Grant Shapps, described England's new rules, unveiled last Friday, as "a new simplified system for international travel". "The purpose is to make it easier for people to travel," Shapps said. Continue reading... |
| Macron yet to take call from Australia’s Scott Morrison over sub snub Posted: 22 Sep 2021 05:49 PM PDT Australian PM hopes to speak with French president 'when the time is right and the opportunity presents' French president Emmanuel Macron has not yet taken a call from Scott Morrison amid continuing fury in Paris over the torn up submarine deal. Morrison, the Australian prime minister, said he hoped to speak with Macron "when the time is right and when the opportunity presents" but he understood "the hurt and the disappointment" felt by France over the cancellation of the $90bn arrangement. Continue reading... |
| Genetics reveal how humans island-hopped to settle remote Pacific Posted: 22 Sep 2021 09:57 AM PDT Study using DNA analysis reveals not only are statues on these distant islands connected, but inhabitants too Easter Island's famous megaliths have relatives on islands thousands of miles to the north and west, and so did the people who created them, a study has found. Over a 250-year period separate groups of people set out from tiny islands east of Tahiti to settle Easter Island, the Marquesas and Raivavae – archipelagos that are thousands of miles apart but all home to similar ancient statues. Continue reading... |
| China growth forecast cut by ratings agency amid Evergrande uncertainty Posted: 22 Sep 2021 10:29 PM PDT Downgrade by Fitch reflects jitters in markets as boss of Asia-focused bank HSBC says problems 'concerning' Ratings agency Fitch has downgraded its forecast for China's economic growth because of concerns about a slowdown in the country's colossal housing market and fears about struggling property giant Evergrande. China enjoyed a swift economic rebound from the Covid-19 pandemic, but strict new rules on the country's developers have caused a deleveraging rush and helped push housing giant Evergrande to crisis point. Continue reading... |
| Biden administration to reopen migrant detention camp near Guantánamo Bay prison Posted: 22 Sep 2021 04:22 PM PDT Immigration authorities seek bids for contractors to run migrant operations center on naval base The Biden administration is preparing to reopen a migrant detention camp on Guantánamo Bay in the wake of a surge of migrants and asylum seekers on the southern border. Related: How thousands of Haitian migrants ended up at the Texas border Continue reading... |
| Myanmar junta abducting children of people targeted for arrest, says UN expert Posted: 22 Sep 2021 10:49 PM PDT Special rapporteur says children as young as 20 weeks old are being seized by military in bid to force suspects to hand themselves in Myanmar's military junta is systematically abducting the relatives of people it is seeking to arrest, including children as young as 20 weeks old, according the UN special rapporteur for the country. Tom Andrews told the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday that conditions in the country have continued to deteriorate and that "current efforts by the international community to stop the downward spiral of events in Myanmar are simply not working". Continue reading... |
| James Bond was ‘basically’ a rapist in early films, says No Time to Die director Posted: 23 Sep 2021 01:01 AM PDT Cary Fukunaga cites scene from Thunderball that 'wouldn't fly today' as new film aims to redress franchise's gender politics The director of No Time to Die, the 25th James Bond film, has said that Sean Connery's version of the character was "basically" a rapist. Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Cary Fukunaga appeared to refer to a scene in 1965's Thunderball in which Connery's Bond forcibly kisses a nurse (played by Molly Peters) who has spurned his advances. In a later scene, Bond suggests he will keep quiet about information that could cost her her job if she sleeps with him. "I suppose my silence could have a price," he says. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2021 02:37 AM PDT Thailand is considering cutting hotel isolation requirements for vaccinated tourists in half to one week; Russia reports 820 Covid-linked deaths
Thailand is considering cutting hotel isolation requirements for vaccinated tourists in half to one week in a bid to attract foreign visitors again, reports Reuters. It comes amid delays to plans to waive quarantine and reopen Bangkok and other tourist destinations from next month after the pandemic caused a collapse in the country's tourism industry.
Covid deaths in Russia, where 820 people died from the virus in the last 24 hours (see 09:46), matched the all-time one-day high reached in August. Since the start of the pandemic, Russia has recorded 7,354,995 coronavirus cases, reports Reuters. Continue reading... |
| More than 100 countries face spending cuts as Covid worsens debt crisis, report warns Posted: 22 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT As pandemic widens inequalities, many developing countries spend more on debt than health, study says More than 100 countries face cuts to public spending on health, education and social protection as the Covid-19 pandemic compounds already high levels of debt, a new report says. The International Monetary Fund believes that 35 to 40 countries are "debt distressed" – defined as when a country is experiencing difficulties in servicing its debt, such as when there are arrears or debt restructuring. Continue reading... |
| Canadian police seek man who allegedly punched nurse for vaccinating his wife Posted: 22 Sep 2021 09:30 AM PDT A man confronted a female nurse at a pharmacy in Quebec for giving his wife a Covid-19 vaccine 'without his authorization' Police in the Canadian province of Quebec are searching for a man they suspect of punching a nurse in the face for giving his wife a Covid-19 vaccine without his consent, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. The man confronted the female nurse on Monday morning in the office of a pharmacy in the city of Sherbrooke, about 155 kilometres (96 miles) south-east of Montreal, where she was assigned to administer vaccines, a police spokesman, Martin Carrier, said by phone. Continue reading... |
| ‘Would you like Pfizer with that?’ New Zealanders could get Covid jab with fast-food fix Posted: 22 Sep 2021 05:21 PM PDT Government is in talks with KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell to administer vaccinations while customers wait in line New Zealanders looking to get a fast-food fix could soon be asked if they would like a vaccine with their meal. The country is aiming to vaccinate at least 90% of its population and the government is now in talks with fast-food giant KFC to help reach that goal. "We just want to reach out to where people are," the deputy prime minister Grant Robertson told RNZ on Thursday morning. Continue reading... |
| The smart toilet era is here! Are you ready to share your analprint with big tech? Posted: 22 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT Loo design has barely changed in 150 years – until now. Will people trade their privacy for the chance to find out exactly what is in their waste? For the past 10 years, Sonia Grego has been thinking about toilets – and more specifically what we deposit into them. "We are laser-focused on the analysis of stool," says the Duke University research professor, with all the unselfconsciousness of someone used to talking about bodily functions. "We think there is an incredible untapped opportunity for health data. And this information is not tapped because of the universal aversion to having anything to do with your stool." As the co-founder of Coprata, Grego is working on a toilet that uses sensors and artificial intelligence to analyse waste; she hopes to have an early model for a pilot study ready within nine months. "The toilet that you have in your home has not functionally changed in its design since it was first introduced," she says, in the second half of the 19th century. There are, of course, now loos with genital-washing capabilities, or heated seats, but this is basic compared with what Grego is envisaging. "All other aspects of your life – your electricity, your communication, even your doorbell – have enhanced capabilities." Continue reading... |
| A mudblood in Tehran: my childhood between Iran and England Posted: 22 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT Growing up in Essex, my summers in Iran felt like magical interludes from reality – but it was a spell that always had to be broken When I was 12, a bespectacled boy with a shock of thick hair and his forearm in plaster gave me the first Harry Potter book. We were at that age when gifts need little occasion, and this marked the last day of our first year of secondary school. It was 1999, and the book was unknown to me. I was mildly embarrassed by its childish watercolour cover, but I dutifully packed it in my satchel when, two days later, my family flew to Iran for our six-week summer holiday. On the large, faded floor cushions of my grandparents' apartment in Tehran's central district, I read the book aloud, flanked by my twin younger sisters, while the adults took their siesta and scorched air and car horns filtered through the mosquito blinds. We fell for it instantly, rooting for Harry as he was transported from life as a misfit in a gloomy suburban cupboard to the secret world of wizardry in which he found fellowship, adventure and belonging. In the years that followed, I would read each successive book to my sisters. Even from the start, they were too old to be read to, but it was more gratifying and companionable to follow Harry's story together, and besides, we could only ever get our hands on one copy. Every now and then one of us would sigh and say, "Don't you feel sad when it hits you that Harry Potter isn't real?" We lived in Southend-on-Sea and attended the local school, an underperforming comprehensive housed in a squat brutalist building on the edge of a large council estate. Most of the pupils were poor, and many underfed, which gave rise to an unshakeable fog of hopelessness, shame and anxiety. While there were few children of colour, racism prospered alongside the many other casual cruelties. With our packed lunches and summer holidays, we were the lucky ones (as our parents often reminded us), but we nonetheless lived in hope that the prosaic, heartless world around us was just the opening scene of a story with a stronger narrative, a better set of characters, and the clean justice of magic. Continue reading... |
| Release the rainbow! Why red, blue, yellow, pink and orange are the new black Posted: 23 Sep 2021 02:00 AM PDT What's the hot new colour, according to London fashion week? Anything you want, so long as it's bright and bold. And the more you mix things up, the better At first I thought London fashion week was going to be all about parma violet. "Did you know purple flowers attract the most bees?" Roland Mouret asked, as I stroked a low-backed silk blouse in pale, luminous lavender on a rail in his studio on the first day. Pantone had just announced Orchid Bloom as one of its key colours for 2022. |
| Lewes’ Kelly Lindsey: ‘In Afghanistan I had to build trust with the players’ Posted: 23 Sep 2021 02:00 AM PDT Club's head of performance talks about coaching the Afghan women's national team and being '100% herself' in her new role "We're eager to do something that the world doesn't believe is possible, to take this little club and become champions on the world stage and make sure we do it with all the right values," says Lewes' new head of performance and former head coach of the Afghanistan women's team, Kelly Lindsey. Few people could talk of such lofty ambitions for the south coast team, whose men play in the Isthmian League Premier Division and women in the Women's Championship, and be taken seriously. Lindsey, though, comes with strong credentials on and off the pitch and feels like the missing piece in the developing project at Lewes, bringing elite performance know-how to the community-owned club that funds its women's and men's teams equally. Continue reading... |
| Betye Saar: the brilliant artist who reversed and radicalised racist stereotypes Posted: 22 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT In the 1970s, her art was so influential that Angela Davis credited it with launching the Black women's movement. At 95, Saar is still creating work - and it is as arresting as ever When the artist Betye Saar learned the Aunt Jemima brand was removing the mammy-like character that had been a fixture on its pancake mixes since 1889, she uttered two words: "Oh, finally." Those familiar with Saar's most famous work, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, might have expected a more dramatic reaction. After all, this was a piece of art so revolutionary that the activist and scholar Angela Davis credited it with launching the Black women's movement. Continue reading... |
| On thin ice: how The Alpinist captured the terrifying climbs of Marc-André Leclerc Posted: 22 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT Climbing solo without ropes, the Canadian adventurer would scale stratospheric walls of ice that could crack and fall with one wrong move. We meet the makers of a gripping, heartbreaking new film An insect-like creature is climbing a wall. The wall is made of ice – not regular, firm ice, but ice with spikes and cracks and gaps in behind. The creature has extended arms like a mantis, with sharply angled ends that hook into the ice, as well as spikes on its feet to kick in. Still, it doesn't look very secure: the ice creaks and bits break off and fall. The creature feels around for somewhere else to stick its hooks and spikes, then continues upwards – intently, methodically, almost mechanically. It is both beautiful and absolutely terrifying. When the camera pans out, it's even more terrifying, because of the sheer size of this frozen wall. It is vast and vertiginous, the creature a tiny dot creeping upwards, a gnat in a sweeping sub-zero landscape. Except that this gnat has no wings: if it falls, it falls. Nor does it have a rope, because it's not a gnat or even an insect, but a man – a Canadian by the name of Marc-André Leclerc, climbing solo in the Rockies with crampons and a pair of ice-axes. Continue reading... |
| Sabina Nessa thought to have been killed on way to meet friend, say police Posted: 23 Sep 2021 01:17 AM PDT Officers believe teacher, 28, was murdered walking through London park en route to pub last Friday Sabina Nessa is thought to have been murdered as she walked through a park on her way to meet a friend at a pub, police have said. Officers investigating the 28-year-old teacher's death said she left her home before walking through Cator Park in south-east London at about 8.30pm last Friday. She was heading towards the Depot bar in Pegler Square, Kidbrooke Village, when she was attacked. Continue reading... |
| ‘Donnez-moi un break’: Johnson deepens rift with France over defence deal Posted: 22 Sep 2021 02:02 PM PDT UK prime minister hits out after Paris reacted with fury to announcement of defence pact Boris Johnson has reopened the rift with Paris over the Aukus defence and security deal, urging the French to "prenez un grip about this and donnez-moi un break", after he and Joe Biden discussed deepening the pact. The prime minister was speaking in Washington, where he attended a dinner on Tuesday evening with the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, after meeting the US president at the White House. Continue reading... |
| Tunisia’s president to ignore parts of the constitution and rule by decree Posted: 22 Sep 2021 02:59 PM PDT Kais Saied says he is preparing to change the political system, prompting opposition from rivals Tunisia's president Kais Saied has declared that he will rule by decree and ignore parts of the constitution as he prepares to change the political system, prompting immediate opposition from rivals. Saied has held nearly total power since 25 July when he sacked the prime minister, suspended parliament and assumed executive authority, citing a national emergency in a move his foes called a coup. Continue reading... |
| Forced from home: the humans and animals under threat – in pictures Posted: 22 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT Nick Brandt visited five animal sanctuaries in Africa to portray the people displaced by droughts and the creatures whose very existence is under threat Continue reading... |
| US public health workers leaving ‘in droves’ amid pandemic burnout Posted: 23 Sep 2021 02:30 AM PDT Many workers feel stonewalled by elected officials and scapegoated for the high US Covid death toll Alexandra was working in the public health emergencies unit in a major north-eastern American city when the first wave of the pandemic hit. Although her job was in public health policy research, and not treating Coovid-19 patients on the frontlines of the healthcare system, she recalls the spring of 2020 as a blur of 24-hour shifts. Related: 'We're trying to survive': workers face cuts as US public sector lags in recovery Continue reading... |
| Posted: 22 Sep 2021 04:47 PM PDT Every time we postpone change we make it harder to transition to the low-carbon economy we need to help prevent global heating Last week, New Zealand's government announced a five-month delay to the emissions reduction plan (ERP) – its key programme for combatting climate change. This is gutting – climate decisions by many organisations and institutions have been delayed since 2017; first to wait for the Zero Carbon Act, then the advice of the Climate Change Commission, and now the ERP, which won't be announced until the budget in May. The postponement even requires an embarrassing legislative change to the Zero Carbon Act to get around the December 2021 deadline for the plan, which is currently enshrined in law. Every day of delay makes the transition we will have to make to a low-carbon Aotearoa – and the ability to make it fair for affected communities – more and more difficult. Continue reading... |
| Arrest footage and teargas raise concerns about Victoria police’s use of force to quell protests Posted: 23 Sep 2021 02:18 AM PDT Video of a man being thrown to the ground by an officer at Melbourne's Flinders St Station sparks internal investigation The use of weapons like teargas and stinger grenades and vision of a man being thrown to the ground by a Victorian police officer at Flinders Street Station has raised concerns about police's use of force during the ongoing protests in Melbourne this week. On the fourth day of protests in the city, footage emerged online showing an officer approaching a man from behind and throwing him to the ground. The man appeared to be talking calmly to other officers at the time. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 22 Sep 2021 11:01 PM PDT We're among the thousands boycotting the UN food summit – it's been hijacked by corporate interests while the voices of small-scale farmers go unheard Thursday's UN food summit proposes to help solve the world's nutrition crisis, with 800 million people going hungry and 1.9 billion labelled obese, by better aligning food systems with development goals. But it won't achieve any of this. The summit was hijacked early on by powerful corporate interests – but people are resisting. Hundreds of social movements and civil society groups across the world representing small-scale and subsistence food producers, consumers and environmentalists are protesting about the summit for being undemocratic, non-transparent and focused only on strengthening only one food system: that backed by the big corporations. Civil society bodies active at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), for instance, are running a massive grassroots boycott of the summit, and there is a website and several actions dedicated to it. Grain, a small nonprofit group campaigning for biodiversity-based food systems, shut down its website and social media in protest on Thursday and many other organisations are holding their own protests around the world. An online alternative forum in July, running in parallel with the pre-summit meeting in Rome, attracted about 9,000 participants. This week, even more are expected. Continue reading... |
| UN food summit will be ‘elitist’ and ‘pro-corporate’, says special rapporteur Posted: 22 Sep 2021 06:03 AM PDT Michael Fakhri says Thursday's meeting will not be promised 'people's summit' on tackling world's nutrition crisis The UN global food summit is "elitist and regressive" and has failed in its goal of being a "people's summit", according to the special rapporteur on food rights. As world leaders prepare to attend the virtual event on Thursday, which aims to examine ways to transform global food systems to be more sustainable, Michael Fakhri said it risked leaving behind the very people critical for its success. In an interview with the Guardian, Fakhri said neither the worsening impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the right to food, nor fundamental questions of inequality, accountability and governance were being properly addressed by the meeting. Continue reading... |
| Big pharma fuelling human rights crisis over Covid vaccine inequity – Amnesty Posted: 22 Sep 2021 03:46 AM PDT Six companies warned not to put profit before lives as report shows less than 1% of almost 6bn doses have gone to low-income countries Amnesty International has accused six pharmaceutical companies that have developed Covid-19 vaccines of fuelling a global human rights crisis, citing their refusal to sufficiently waive intellectual property rights, share vaccine technology and boost global vaccine supply. After assessing the performance of six Covid-19 vaccine developers – Pfizer and BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca and Novavax – Amnesty International claims that all are failing to uphold their own human rights commitments and warns they should not be putting profit before the lives of people in the world's poorest countries. Continue reading... |
| ‘Pushing the nuclear envelope’: North Korea’s missile diplomacy Posted: 22 Sep 2021 04:57 AM PDT Analysis: Fear and uncertainty of the Obama years could return as Kim Jong-un revives nuclear ambitions North Korea's recent missile launches signal that the regime has reverted to familiar tactics to attract the attention of the US. Although the rest of the world will take little comfort from this return to "normality", after a six-month pause Pyongyang last weekend launched what it claimed were new long-range cruise missiles capable of hitting Japan, followed hours later by the test launch of two ballistic missiles into the sea, apparently from a train. Then came the clearest sign since its last nuclear test in 2017 that the North is not about to abandon its project to build a viable deterrent, with satellite images showing it was expanding a uranium enrichment plant at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex. Continue reading... |
| Biden recognises there could have been 'more discussion' with France says Psaki – video Posted: 22 Sep 2021 01:32 PM PDT During the White House daily press briefing on Wednesday, press secretary Jen Psaki was asked for additional details about Joe Biden's call with the French president Emmanuel Macron today, after which it was announced the French ambassador would return to Washington. Psaki noted that the phone call between the two leaders lasted about 30 minutes, and she said it was a "friendly" conversation. "[Biden] acknowledged that there could have been more discussion," she said. Continue reading... |
| Whitty and Van-Tam say it is ‘inevitable’ that unvaccinated children will get Covid – video Posted: 22 Sep 2021 01:10 PM PDT Prof Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer for England, and Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, the deputy chief medical officer, appeared before the Commons education committee over the decision to offer Covid vaccines to 12- to 15-year-olds, after the Joint Committee on Vaccines and Immunisation (JCVI) had said the benefits were too small. Whitty told MPs said any time in school missed as a result of being inoculated should be balanced against the potentially longer period lost as a result of being infected. Continue reading... |
| 'Donnez-moi un break': Johnson says France needs to 'get a grip' over submarine deal – video Posted: 22 Sep 2021 07:05 AM PDT Boris Johnson has said French officials need to 'prenez un grip' amid continued anger at the US and UK's recent submarine deal with Australia. France recalled its ambassadors from both countries in response to Sunday's announcement. On Wednesday the prime minister said: 'It is not exclusive. It is not trying to shoulder anybody out. It is not adversarial towards China, for instance. It is there to intensify links and friendship between three countries' Continue reading... |
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